Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What does the competitive landscape look like? Of course there is a lot going on in big data. How do you view the map and the competitive landscape? How do you position yourself in that ecosystem with that competitive landscape? Billy Bosworth: I have been around databases for a long time. This is

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, that means a large number of your customers are basically Internet companies.  Companies that provide Internet services or Internet retail, e-commerce, and so on. Is that correct? Billy Bosworth: That is certainly not uncommon. Overall, I would not say Internet companies, but that their applications are Internet based. That is the better

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The map that is emerging in my mind is that you are doing all the big data processing on your side, whether it is Adobe building a product on top of your platform, or eBay or Netflix building certain capabilities in their transactional systems. That is how you go to the market. Is

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I would like you to do two more use cases. Feel free to pick whatever would be a good illustration of your functionality. Bill Bosworth: What we tend to focus on is the following: When we work with larger companies, many of them have lines of business that are trying to fundamentally change

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: That brings me to my next question. What kinds of use cases were your founders seeing? Let’s get into some of those use cases where you as a company bring special value. Billy Bosworth: I will give you one which is a pure Cassandra use case. This was a very early customer, Netflix.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 1)

Billy Bosworth is the CEO of DataStax, a big data company based in San Mateo, California. It provides a scalable, flexible big data platform built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax has more than 250 customers, including startups and several Fortune 100 companies. Billy got a degree in computer science from the University of Louisville and counts

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 1)

Since making its initial public offering in February 2000, Savvis has experienced significant growth, not only organically but also through acquisition. When the company decided to expand its operations in 2005 from network services to global IT services, a name change went along with it, and Savvis Communications became Savvis, Inc. In 2007 and 2008,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 6)

Role of Private cloud in a data center, virtualization and cloudifying a large enterprise data center, Exit barriers, Capacity as a Commodity https://www.ibm.com/ https://www.sun.com/ https://www.hp.com/ https://www.cisco.com/ https://www.bmc.com